I've been expecting this for a while. It's going to be an incredible pain in the ass here in Los Angeles, where paparazzi are a serious problem (frequent reckless driving in order to get pictures, etc). Kind of awesome in some other ways, though. The NYPD closed airspace above Occupy Wall Street, preventing news helicopters from capturing any footage; this was actually illegal, or at least improper, as NYPD has no airspace jurisdiction.

However, the real criticism should be reserved for journalists who complied with an invalid "order," specifically CBS. You have to wonder if that would have played out differently if any news organization with an interest in a story could get its hands on a thousand-dollar (or less) helicopter/camera robot. But you won't have to wonder long, because it's only a few years away.